2979 Perry Avenue

Bedford Park | built 1912

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1910
No. 2979 begins the attached row of five houses with Ionic porticos
This house is the southwestern end of the five fully attached houses, Nos. 2979 to 2987, built from Charles S. Clark's 1910 plans for George D. Kingston. Instead of the three-sided porches of the four houses to the southwest, these have projecting porticos on slender Ionic columns. Facades alternate between orange and red brick, with masonry quoins, splayed lintels and hipped-roof dormers.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1912
Clothing merchant Louis Cohn and his English-born wife Julia live here
Louis Cohn, a clothing merchant born in Germany, was among the early residents of this house, finished in 1912. His wife Julia was born in England. Many of the row's early households were headed by German immigrants. The house was later converted into a multiple dwelling.
“Louis Cohn of no. 2979 (a clothing merchant)... Julia Cohn, wife of Louis Cohn of no. 2979, was also born in England.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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